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HE 111Z winter camouflage?

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, October 21, 2011 1:59 PM

We really need this as a sticky, and i am crap at explaining this. But to start with you need to host your pics on another site, photobucket is the most common one. DoogsATX wrote a 'how to do' on this.

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Posted by high and the mighty on Friday, October 21, 2011 1:44 PM

How do you post photos on this Forum???

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, September 10, 2011 1:15 PM

I have the same kit in the stash, and if i remember right, this is the aircraft depicted in the white scheme.

That deffinatly looks like white to me. They were intended to be used for the Stalingrad airlift, but apparently they couldn't  find big enough airfields, so there use was cancelled.

Would love to see some pics of your build and hear what you think of it.

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On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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    June 2008
  • From: Iowa
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Friday, September 9, 2011 1:12 PM

Best I can do for ya.. It appears that these are simple, one-color camo-jobs, the temp white-wash over Hellblau... Typical of the temporary winter schemes, the framework appears to be partially left in the original camo..

 

  • Member since
    June 2011
HE 111Z winter camouflage?
Posted by high and the mighty on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:41 PM

I am building the Hasegawa Heinkell HE-111Z, the famous German hybrid of two Heinkels joined into one as a glider pull.  The box cover shows the plane in what seems to be a patchy white/gray winter scheme and the instructions give alternatives for the usual RLM dark green/black green.light blue camouflage used in photos I've seen of the Z's--only 12 of which were produced.  The instructions also have a page for winter camouflage, which indicates the modeler spray flat white (deliberately sloppily, I assume) over the dark and black greens pattern.  This makes senses in the way such camouflage was quickly added to adapt to particular conditions, with white paint slopped on by hand,  but I can't find any archival evidence that any of  HE-111Zs ever used winter camouflage.  There is some conflicting histories saying the Z was intended for action in Russia but did not serve.

Anyone know anything definitive? I;d like to take a crack at the winter camouflage--if it existed for the Z!

 

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